Bulgaria
Related Electronic Resources
See also clickable
map of electronic information resources related to Bulgaria (provided your WWW viewer
supports image maps) and list
of WWW servers in Bulgaria.
Resources in Bulgaria
WWW Servers
Anonymous ftp Servers
- EUnet - Bulgaria ftp site
- The first ftp server in Bulgaria is hosted by Digital Systems - the
local EUnet
provider in Bulgaria which
is located in the city of Varna.
Has mostly networking and other software tools.
(Look into /pub directory.)
- Academic node unicom.acad.bg
- Has a number of network-related softare products and tools (Experimental)
-
St.Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
- Network-related software
Gopher Servers
- MGU - University of Mining and Geology Gopher Server
- The first Gopher server in Bulgaria is hosted by the
University of Mining and Geology located in the city of Sofia.
Resources outside Bulgaria
WWW Servers
- The official Bulgarian WWW
home page
- Has pointers to many resources on the net related to Bulgaria.
Allows people with no local UseNet access (e.g., people from Bulgaria)
to post to
soc.culture.bulgaria UseNet newsgroup through their WWW browser.
Has an archive of Bulgarian
music and pictures.
The page is on a machine in the Rockefeller
University in the city of New
York and is maintained by Penio
Penev.
- All about Bulgaria
- Information compiled by Dragomir Radev
at Columbia University.
Has a FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions) file about Bulgaria.
An archive
of soc.culture.bulgaria
as well as Drago's
list of top postings to soc.culture.bulgaria are available.
The page includes a list of personal WWW pages
of Bulgarians on the net.
(A local mirror
copy of the list is maintained by Pavlin
Radoslavov at Tokyo
Institute of Technology, although it might be out of date.)
- Bulgarian Constitution (1991)
- Has the full text of the text of the Constitution of Bulgaria adopted by the
Seventh Grand National Assembly in 1991. Maintained by
Axel Tschentscher
at the Hamburg University Law School
- Bulgaria - Political & Economic Assessment
- Completed just ahead of the most recent Bulgarian parliamentary elections
(December 1994) by ING Bank International
- Bulgarian
cuisine page
- Check out the delicious recipes ! Compiled by
Jan Terziyski at the University
of Tokyo. Dobar apetit !
- Bulgarian Photo
Album
- Arranged by George
Petrov at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
- A Collection of Modern Bulgarian Icons
- Images of icons painted by the young Bulgarian artist
Lyubomil Draganov;
arranged by Roumen Borissov
at Temple University.
- A very small Bulgarian dictionary
- Get to know different parts of the face in Bulgarian prepared by
Anton Kirilov
at the University of Maine.
- Bulgarian
jokes page
- Compiled by Ivo Sargoytchev
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jokes are in Bulgarian. If you want your jokes to
be placed there, please send them to: ivor@interlog.com, and indicate if you
want your name to be placed after your joke.
- Bulgarian page from Friends and Partners server
- Has a map of Bulgaria and links to a number of other Bulgaria-related pages
- Bulgarian Telegraph Agency's daily News
archive
- Excerpts from the daily reports of the state Bulgarian information agency
sent via the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington D.C.
- Information about the Bulgarian Nuclear Power Plant in Kozloduy from Greece
- Includes
The Nuclear power plants in Europe
page with an analysis of the risk to the population of Greece due to nuclear accidents; and
Nuclear safety events reported by IAEA (INES)
- mostly regarding the Kozloduy NPP (under construction)
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Information about the Bulgarian artist Christo, Jeanne-Claude, and their projects.
- The Wrapping of the Reichstag
- Official site of the art project by Bulgarian artist Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
- CDwow! - The Internet Music Store
- Has an article
about the Bulgarian music by Myles Boison and a large selection
of Bulgarian music
- Bulgarian folk dance page
- Has some background information on Bulgarian folk dancing and files
on specific dances
- Bulgarian Football
(Americans call it Soccer) page
- Maintained by Georgi Blagoev at
Uppsala Univercity,
Uppsala,
Sweden.
- Bulgarian League Results - Football
(Americans call it Soccer)
- Bulgarian Cup Results - Football
(Americans call it Soccer)
- WWW pages related to
Bulgaria at Arizona State University in
Tempe,
Arizona
- Has a daily
news collection,
pictures,
some audio
files with music, etc. Maintained by Plamen
Bliznakov.
Time in Bulgaria Servers
- HiLink Communications WWW server
in Australia provides the local Bulgarian
time by contacting server danbo.digsys.bg of Digital Systems - the
local EUnet affiliate in Bulgaria.
- Timex server
- Hosted by Time Inc. Displays time based on GMT difference.
Gopher Servers
- An experimental Gopher server on Bulgaria
- It uses the node Magdanoz.mcafee.com located in San Jose, California.
- Bulgarian Telegraph Agency's daily News
archive
- Excerpts from the daily reports of the state Bulgarian information agency
sent via the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington D.C.
- Background Notes - Bulgaria
- Prepared by the U.S. State Department. Include notes on Bulgarian
Geography, people, politics, economy, etc. Somewhat outdated.
- Bulgaria -
Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Report, prepared by the U.S. State Department.
- A catalog of gopher
server links
- Links to various gopher pages related to Bulgaria collected at the Univesrity
of Texas at Austin Russian and East European Network Information Center
ftp Servers
- An ftp site with
Bulgaria-related info
- It uses a server in Columbia University
in the city of New York and is maintained
by Dragomir Radev
- A largely Bulgaria-related
ftp archive
- It is maintained on Magdanoz.mcafee.com. Both login and password are
vestnik. You might want to access the archive from another window
(for some reason, WWW browsers do not give a proper list of files in the
directories on that server).
- Amateur Bulgarian folk singing
- Audio files courtesy of Michael Faison
telnet Sessions
- A telnet session to Magdanoz
- The login is vestnik. Has a menu interface. Information is partly in
Bulgarian, partly in English. Many Bulgarians get together there to chat
with each other (use Ctrl/T to get into conference mode).
- A telnet session to tune.
- After log-in use /help to see the list of available commands.
UseNet Newsgroups
Note: in most cases you have to rely on your own newserver for those.
- soc.culture.bulgaria
- A discussion newsgroup related to Bulgaria.
If you do not have a local UseNet news server (esp., if you are in Bulgaria)
you can still access
and post to soc.culture.bulgaria UseNet newsgroup through the
WWW-to-NNTP
gateway provided by Penio
Penev. You can also post to
soc.culture.bulgaria by sending by E-mail your message for soc.culture.bulgaria
to soc-culture-bulgaria@cs.utexas.edu.
An archive
of soc.culture.bulgaria is available for browsing on WWW
thanks to the work done by Dragomir
Radev.
- bit.listserv.e-europe
- A USENET version of materials distributed by the Eastern European
Business Network moderated mailing list server. You can subscribe to this
list by sending mail to listserv@pucc.bitnet or
listserv@pucc.princeton.edu (in the body of the mail message write:
sub e-europe < your name >).
- bit.listserv.euearn-l
- A USENET version of materials distributed by another Eastern European
mailing list server (mostly posts from Eastern Europe).
- misc.news.east-europe.rferl
- RFE/RL Reports from your local news-server. Typically, each daily report
includes 1-2 short articles about Bulgaria. Should change in 1995.
- clari.world.europe.balkans
- If you are lucky, your local news-server would carry
ClariNet groups.
Besides Reuter and AP news from Bulgaria this group covers Romania and
former Yugoslavia.
- clari.world.europe.union
- Hopefully, Bulgaria will be appearing more and more
frequently along with the European Union as it tries to join the
15 member nations together with 5 more countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
As with the previous group, you have to be lucky enough to have your local
news-server carry ClariNet groups.
- clari.biz.market.report.europe
- European market reports. As with the previous groups, you have to be lucky
enough to have your local news-server carry
ClariNet groups.
- alt.politics.ec
- European Union discussion newsgroup (only remotely related to Bulgaria,
at least for now).
- alt.politics.europe.misc
- European politics discussion newsgroup (materials are occasionaly related to Bulgaria).
- soc.culture.europe
- European discussion newsgroup (materials are occasionaly related to Bulgaria).
- rec.travel.europe
- Travel to Europe newsgroup (materials are rarely related to Bulgaria).
- bit.listserv.mideur-l
- Middle Europe discussion list (not directly related to Bulgaria)
New electronic resources in Bulgaria or related to it could be registered by sending
E-mail to Plamen.Bliznakov@ASU.edu
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